Ancient Egyptian funerary paintings have long been admired for their formal and structured nature, but a recent study conducted by an international team of scientists revealed new insights into ...

INDIANAPOLIS, February 5, 2008 - The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first venue to host To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, which will be on view July 13 - ...

The building, as big as Vatican City with a collection larger than the Louvre, has been in the making for over 30 years and ...

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian cemetery dated to more than 3,000 years ago containing the colorful coffin of a high priest's daughter and preserved mummies, among hundreds of ...

Ongoing archaeological missions at the necropolis of Meir in Qusiya, Egypt, equidistant from the cities of Cairo and Aswan, are offering a fuller understanding of the region’s rich multicultural ...